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Le Motel and Bruce Wijn met at school, during a school art trip to Munich. They went separate ways for a long time.

Hailing from Brussels, Le Motel's world is a vortex of sight and sound that takes in the many and varied corners of the planet. As a music producer and film composer his versatility has taken him to festivals and clubs in every direction as naturally as he has ventured out to the less accessible areas of the globe as a field recordist. It's somewhere in between these spaces that Le Motel operates, gathering unique experiences and sounds to channel through his studio.

Bruce Wijn is a Brussels-based guitarist who played in several postrock kind projects such as Sound Film, 52 Commercial Road, or more shoegaze Lazy Sin. These collaborations gave him the opportunity to perform in various locations in Belgium, France, England, and the USA. As a musician, his focus has always been attracted by progressively built rhythmic melodies, which would eventually turn into long reverberated or distorted swells, or the otherway round.

All these experiences brought them both to the idea of scoring movies with different yet similar approaches.

That's how their first collaboration happened as Le Motel was working on the soundtrack of the movie Binti, and invited Bruce Wijn for the track Exode, in 2018. Since then, they've been working on other scoring projects, such as the feature film 'Aller Retour' more recently.

Alongside the movie scoring activities another audiovisual live project was born, in collaboration with Antoine de Schuyter and his mesmerizing images.

This one is more focusing on tape textures, field recordings and glitchy effects in order to build atmospheric tracks that they decided to bring together in a first E.P. 'MAAR'.

'MAAR' is elaborated as a soundtrack for an imaginary journey between cold seas and volcanoes explorations.

From the first echoing sounds of playing kids on the shoreside in the opening track 'La Perche' Le Motel & Bruce Wijn let you slide in a technicolor dreamworld, reverbing slowly innocent childhood memories into a chilled, out of range, future.

'MAAR' dives deep into a kaleidoscopic microcosmos watching Nautilus playing hide and seek with 'Captain Ahab' floating on sonic breaking waves, while seagulls gently spread their wings flying through the breezy and misty clouds of Blankenberge.

Lava vulcanica slowly melts in the sad euphorica of the cold North Sea, crystallizing sounds only Le Motel and Bruce Wijn can deliver.

An absolute, hard-charging funk hammer from the Dap-Kings - an incredible instrumental co-written and co-produced by Dapper Bosco Mann and Kenny Dope! If "Nervous Like Me" has a title that reflects some kind of apprehension, the track is anything but! It's simply pummeling - with a rhythm that kicks out from some stealth bongo and rolling trap that build into some playful guitar and bass response until the horns crash and boom! The beats on the flip isolate the funky drums, providing a sizzling beat track.

Together with EDWIN, SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL have created a limited edition “Healing Hifi” T-Shirt with a graphic approach that mirrors the SKRS style in a playful way. To accompany the release, they have created an exclusive mix for The EDWIN Music Channel, that will also be available as a cassette tape

Andrea opened this sophomore album Due In Color mostly during 2020 and 2021. You may reverb that those times were slightly crazy due to the small matter of a pandemic which is what lead the artists to explore a world of more hazy and experimental jazz sounds. That in turn inspired him to use more acoustic sounds in his music and so this is a record that turns its back on dark and booming club spaces and heads instead towards blooming fields of expansive downtempo, textured ambient and dreamy soundscapes.

Title paraphrase of the legendary British film the crying game, track titles that refer to stories of Philip dick or William Gibson, melancholic pads a la Derrick May and jazzy melodies compose a hybrid of acid and drum and bass that brings to mind the braindance and breakcore sound of the UK . Αthens Computer Underground's The Crying Came is a sophisticated soundtrack of hardware electronica.

Elissa Suckdog's first full release arrives via her own imprint, the counterpart to Klon Dump's KLON series. DOG001 follows her Girls/Dudes Try white label edits and features an itchy A and a soothing B, watched over by F1's last female competitor Giovanni Amati and historian Michael Parenti.

MATE records are back with a cool rebranding and the same quality house and deep house to which we are accustomed. This time French artist Evenn and the prolific producer DFRA from Buenos Aires server up six smoking hot tracks in this solid split.

A Side Evenn present a nice house vibe, creamy rhodes and cool samples vocals makes a perfect combination straight to the dancefloor.

B side three new offering of quality deep house music by the multi-

Cansu Ak, Tolga Horasanli and Mehmet Koray Erol came together in 2019 to produce their own music with creating the band "oldu o zaman". Since they gathered as a band, 2 songs written, composed and arranged by them have been released by Avrupa Müzik. After that, the band decided to make their mutual dream which is covering and arranging Turkish traditional well-known folk songs with psychedelic and electronic elements to create a unique sound with their own touch. There was a psychedelic music trend in 70"s used in traditional Anatolian folk songs. Oldu o Zaman rearranged famous tavern song "Sigarasi Yaldizli" and a well known Turkish gipsy song "Mastika" by using this trend in electronic form.

"Dans cent ans" is not a record: it’s a talisman.
Flavien Berger doesn’t make music, he makes time machines.
In 2015, he released his first album, Leviathan, which he’d imagined like a moment suspended into the bowels of present time.
In 2018, Contre-Temps, his critically acclaimed second album, was narrated like a flashback.
Dans Cent Ans (“In 100 Years”) ends this trilogy and launches into the future with the grace of a poisonous serpent.
Flavien had just finished producing Pomme’s last album and was simultaneously scoring Céline Devaux’s feature film Tout le monde aime Jeanne, when he recorded this album, during six months of isolation.
In the garret of a Belgian house in construction, these 12 tracks were born, close to the sky, both direct and mysterious.
Because Flavien Berger knows how to make machines sound sensual (a key example is the pop song “D’ici là”) and dares to interweave electronics, chanson and art music, organic instruments and synthetic choirs, without ever falling into parodic territory.
Because his voice, more precise, unreverbed, and close-mic’d than ever, sings to our ears – using multisyllabic rhymes (“Trop ivres pour te plaire / Tropiques du cancer”) and surrealist imagery (“la neige restera rose” – “the snow will remain pink”) – stories that feel unknown yet obvious.
And like both previous albums ended with a long eponymous track like a breath of air, “Leviathan” and “Contre-temps”, so does “Dans Cent Ans”, a 15-minute long saga where vocals, wind instruments and machines converse, as if Debussy, Etienne Daho and a Sufi Dervish met in a dream.
After listening to this album, the vertigo of love and the collision of times are one and the same.
In one hundred years, music will survive us all, and its dangerous beauty will awaken other lives. In the meantime, Flavien Berger keeps stunning ours.

Tarotplane's new tape on Constellation Tatsu comes after many years of research and correspondence. They find him seeking to recreate the unique sound of the late great legend that is Manuel Gottsching. As such, his Aeonium album is a truly psychedelic treasure that fuses some magical moments from Krautrock as well as plenty of new and innovative sounds in between. It has twinkling cosmic melodies and sleek synth lines that are in constant flux. This one comes with great cover art in the form of a silkscreen from 1972 by Gernot Bubenik that captures the melting colours of the music.

Am 24.03. veröffentlicht der internationale Superstar Bella Poarch ihre mit Spannung erwartete Debüt-EP "Dolls" auf Vinyl.

Bella trat Anfang 2021 zum ersten Mal in die Musikszene ein, als sie ihre Debütsingle "Build a Bitch" veröffentlichte.
Das Musikvideo zum Song landete auf Platz 1 der globalen und US-amerikanischen YouTube-Videocharts und markierte mit bisher über 410 Millionen Aufrufen das bisher größte Debüt für einen neuen Künstler.

Die Platin-Single nähert sich schnell einer Milliarde globaler Streams.
Bella Poarch ist eine philippinisch-amerikanische Sängerin und Songwriterin, die als Teenager beim Militär gedient hat und seit ihrem Ausbruch auf TikTok im Jahr 2020 schnell aufgestiegen ist.

Ihr Video "M to the B" erreichte 50 Millionen Likes auf TikTok. Mit TikToks beliebtestem Video aller Zeiten ist Bella die Nummer 3 der YouTuber mit den meisten Followern auf der Plattform und die Nummer 1 der asiatisch-amerikanischen Influencer der Welt mit mehr als 90 Millionen Followern.

Die Kinks sind eine der größten britischen Bands und eine der einflussreichsten Rockgruppen aller Zeiten, ohne die viele der nachfolgenden großen Rockbands nicht existiert hätten.
Ihr mehrfach preisgekrönter, legendärer Frontmann Sir Ray Davies ist einer der größten britischen Songwriter.

Anlässlich des 60-jährigen Jubiläums der Kinks und zusammengestellt von The Kinks, erscheint diese neue, hochkarätige Veröffentlichung, die die Kataloge von Pye und RCA kombiniert.
Es ist das erste neue "Best of" der Kinks seit vielen Jahren, insbesondere auf Vinyl.

"The Journey" ist eine Sammlung von Titeln, die von Ray Davies, Dave Davies und Mick Avory ausgewählt wurden und die die Versuche und Drangsale ihres gemeinsamen Lebens als Band seit 1963 widerspiegeln.
Die Sammlung enthält Hits, wichtige Albumtracks, Singles, Juwelen der Band und B-Seiten. Alle Aufnahmen wurden für die Veröffentlichung von den originalen Bändern neu gemastert.

"The Journey" enthält acht Top 20 Hits (davon fünf Top 3), darunter: "Waterloo Sunset", "You Really Got Me", "Celluloid Heroes", "Supersonic Rocket Ship", "Dead End Street", "Death Of A Clown", "All Day And All Of The Night".

Die Booklets enthalten Bandfotos und persönliche Notizen von Ray Davies, Dave Davies und Mick Avory zu den einzelnen Titeln.
"The Journey - Part 1" ist als Heavyweight 2LP und Digipack 2CD erhältlich.

"Coming Home - 40 YEARS MAJOR TOM" feiert 40 Jahre "Fehler Im System" und "Major Tom (völliglosgelöst)" und das prägende musikalische Werk des Peter Schilling und erscheint am 24.03. zum
internationalen Jubiläum.

Die 2CD-Version von "Coming Home" enthält insgesamt 40 Tracks - 20 englische, 20 deutsche. Darunter finden sich remasterte Versionen der großen Hits aus 40 Jahren wie "Major Tom (völlig losgelöst)" , "Die Wüste Lebt" oder " Terra Titanic? sowie - in beiden Sprachen - je
vier neue Songs .
Erstmals für Schillings große Fan-Base in Südamerika wurde "Major Tom" zudem auf Spanisch eingesungen (Mayor Tom (? Vuelve a casa)), ferner kann man sich auf beeindruckende neue Orchester-Versionen dieses Welthits freuen. Die Songs DNA ( "(Into Your ") DNA"), Ozean "(Oceans Eyes)" und Nach innen sehen ("Starting with myself") erscheinen erstmals auf Englisch und wurden für "Coming Home" neu aufgenommen.

Diverse Songs sind hier überdies zum ersten Mal überhaupt auf CD erhältlich. Abgerundet wird die Sammlung von einem 24-seitigen Booklet mit neuen Fotos und Liner Notes .

Main Source cut a sharp figure when they broke through in the early 90s, made up of Toronto's K-Cut and Sir Scratch and New York's Large Professor. Their debut album Breaking Atoms is one of the greatest from that golden era for hip-hop, and there's no shortage of hot tracks to pick for a 7" pressing, but here Japan's P-Vine picks out the classic 'Live At The Barbeque' and backs it up with Large Professor's own self-titled joint. This is early 90s hip-hop at its best, boiled down on a handy little single for those moments when you just want the hits.

Drumcode’s beloved A-Sides compilation makes a welcome return after a two-year absence, with a mammoth 25-track feast covering every shade of the techno spectrum split across seven, 12 inch parts. The project was devised in 2012 as a way of showcasing the wealth of strong material Adam Beyer receives each year, which due to Drumcode’s busy release schedule, might not otherwise find a home on the label. Since then, it’s grown to become an essential fixture on the techno release schedule and a marker for where the genre stands in any given year.

No holds barred for part 7's opener from A.D.H.S. – Razor, acid arps and monster synthwork a plenty, before an oscillating peaktime stormer courtesy of Julian Jeweil – Pulsation. Flip it for Marco Faraone’s ever intensifying head spinner ‘Dream’ before Gary Beck closes it out with a swirling warning call ‘Ship Went Down’.

Betonska continues their journey of (re)releasing concealed and wantlisted gems from the past, for the future. The Biotone - D.Wave EP is the first one on sub-label Dzungla, a sub-label focusing on the heavier sounds from the 90s and beyond. This early psy-/breaks release from 1996 was one of the first of many great releases by Sebastian Taylor, pushing the UK rave scene to its fullest.

While delving not too deep in the ‘psy’ part of early psy, this release remains notably bright/clean, uplifting and proggy, with a healthy dose of acid lines and breakbeat rhythms. An early bird in the psy-breaks genre, ready to strengthen its existence on contemporary dance floors."

Following the release of their 2021's critically acclaimed album The Black Stone Affair, instrumental cinematic-soul outfit Whatitdo Archive Group unleashes two startling new singles: "Forbidden Cove" and "The Cashmere Chamber", out on limited edition 7'' on March 24th via Record Kicks. The 45 is limited to 500 copies worldwide and it is just an appetizer of the upcoming new album Palace Of A Thousand Sounds, scheduled for release on May 5th, 2023. Whatitdo Archive Group previous 45s went sold out in weeks and are currently very in-demand from collectors and djs.

On side A, we find the first single "Forbidden Cove". We are immediately greeted with top-notch production that feels like we stumbled upon yet another lost rarity, but this time from the heyday of American "exotica" music from the mid-century movement of the early '60s (think Martin Denny and Les Baxter). The twist here is that the underlying tone is dark, heavy and cinematic. WAG flexes their compositional chops and maturity with clever arrangements, a tight rhythm section and dreamy vibraphone that lead us to dense Arthur Verocai-esque orchestral arrangements and hypnotizing eastern flavors.

From the first notes of the Javanese metallophone, Whatitdo Archive Group welcomes you into "The Cashmere Chamber", on side B of the 7''. Less a room and more an auditory experience, "Chamber" skillfully guides you deeper into its world complete with menacing drums and bass, sinister vibraphone melodies and a haunting choir. But this driving force of the rhythm section isn't enough for WAG; we see the song quickly blossom into an adrenaline pumping guitar feature layered expertly with a Turkish baglama saz and percussion. This track is a sample-worthy heater for any DJ.

The new album Palace Of A Thousand Sounds will be available May 5th, 2023 on limited edition LP, CD and digital platforms. Palace Of A Thousand Sounds finds Whatitdo Archive Group entrenched deeper in the worlds of mid-century exotica and library music—from the Tropicalia-steeped Amazon to the minor key tonalities of the far-out Near East.

Steeped in obscurity, a cult following of crate-diggers and musical oddity collectors has been brewing over the mysterious releases of the Whatitdo Archive Group. Surfacing in 2009 from the high deserts of Reno, NV USA, this three-piece recording collective (Alexander Korostinsky, Mark Sexton and Aaron Chiazza) focuses solely on curating, performing and preserving esoteric soundtrack, library and deep-groove collections. As an onlooker, it's hard to tell whether the music they are procuring is actually archival, music of their own creation, or both. Their debut LP The Black Stone Affair, the formerly lost soundtrack music of a once-shelved Italian cinematic masterpiece, was released in 2021 and received praise from the likes of Wall Street Journal, Mojo Magazine, Uncut, Shindig and Blues & Soul Magazine, BBC 6 (UK), FIP (FR), KCRW (US), JazzFM (UK) and more. Two years later, the Whatitdo Archive Group is back. Get ready for an exotic adventure with their sophomore full-length effort: Palace of a Thousand Sounds.

Stryctly from past to present another delivery of dancefloor gems from Bang It! Ready to become an essential package for all discerning selectors and digger. Don’t sleep, pack it in your bag!